ah ah miss hours headline stories preparing for the worst this winter from europe commits to a 15 percent cut in gas consumption until next spring. but on a voluntary basis with numerous exemptions to the energy saving plan, also ahead one, do they ask me a question? are you proust? wish i should, you must think i'm, when you do, i'm through. i should've. uganda president spelled on his foreign policy views coming after talks with russia's top, diplomats, who's in the east african country on the latest start of his tour across the continent with this city of been yet comes under further shelling from

ukrainian forces. don boss, authority, say a psychiatric hospital and an oil terminal where hit on point to us, supplied weapons being used by keith with wherever you're catching the program from today. welcome to moscow into the global use round up an r t. i'm going to need e countries have committed to a 15 percent reduction in gas consumption until next spring. although the small print shows that the energy saving plan is voluntary and comes with a pretty sizable half of exemptions. and it comes on the heels of russian energy, john gas poms, announcement, it's the further cut supplies to europe from tomorrow. whedon state e u chief of underlying praised, the block smooth, saying that i chose the unanimity of member nations. but the fuse being questioned

. i strongly welcome the endorsement by counsel of the regulation to reduce gas demand and prepare for the winter. it is a decisive step to face down the threat of a full gas disruption. thanks to today's decision, europe is now ready to address its energy security as a union. the only really entity on this issue is the countries that refuse to cut their gas use agree that those who have had no choice and new alternatives should really well. yeah, ration their supply. so there's really no solidarity at all. and ross is the central request that all $27.00 members states reduce their gas consumption by 15 percent. this is really all about the entire e. you coming to the rescue germany, the blocks top economic engine, which lacked the courage to stand up to american pressure to sanction its pipeline projects with russia. and then stood idly by while that you did exactly the same thing. all apparently, without any viable back, a plan for their own national economy. berlin, me to really foolish, strategic mistake by depending so heavily on renewables when it's pretty clear that

they aren't ready for prime time. so berlin egg on by brussels, talked a good tough game about being strong and independent, not needing any russian energy. but well, i guess was all bluster because it's still so reliant on that russian gas that freaked out over attending maintenance shut down of the nord stream on pipeline. and is now panicking again over gas problems reduction of delivery volume by 80 percent starting tomorrow. so the berlin hands, the blocked member states, have decided today that if brussels ever imposes the 15 percent cut as a binding measure, well, in all their spirit of unity, they'll just opt out. that's the kind of unity over which you officials are all pat each other on the back today. it really can't make this stuff up. malta, cypress, ireland, in portugal, art connected to the you grid aren't reliant on gas. and well, they want to maintain their independence and sovereignty france almost made the same foolish choices that jeremy did by launching headlong into green energy. but

then a dodged a bullet when its success fully lobbied brussels to reclassify nuclear power as green earlier this year. so now it figures that they can just fire up a few more radioactive energy plants again and whether this turbulence. so as a french ecology, ministry says they really were cool with brussels, proposed dictate, we do not want to introduce uniform objectives that would not be adapted to every one's reality in which ultimately would not have an impact on our ability to export gas to our neighbors. greason, spain had also said no to the proposal, insisting on maintaining sovereign control over their own supply and hungry is well already in king. the russian gas deals, even as the rest of the u. rings, its hands over how it can possibly continue to keep ukrainian president library zalinski happy without completely bleeding out their own economies. oh, and by the way, they really can't keep him happy clearly because he's been popping off yet today, even as the states were meeting, repeating his mantra that the you have to head back with even more sanctions,

apparently oblivious to the fact that sanctions are exactly why the situation, europe is this bad as much as the you is paying lip service to the idea of solidarity and making a lot of noise about in public. the reality is that the increased pressure is causing any unity to start falling apart at the seams. on some reaction, we got to the story german economist and publisher i. k. helmer believes its ordinary europeans who end up paying the price themselves for the e. u. they the chiefs and brussels, their plan to cut gas consumption. i'm afraid that these european bureaucrats really think that they are in charge and they can take the order of ordering people . busy that to, to limit their consumption of, of guess not beneficial for their own people, them up only paying more for the gas they have, may get limits on what they get. and on top they using that jobs because the

companies are breaking apart. and on top, the euro is losing ground and is getting worthless and worthless. so no holiday and other things in these foreign countries any more. this is an uncontrolled demolition of economy with an impoverishment of the european people. russia's top diplomat has hinted a key cause of europe's energy crisis lies in pure politics. sir. gala froth stress that they nordstrom to pipeline which connect, rush it to germany, but doesn't currently have berlin's operational approval. is capable of meeting dom up just what was the worst. we now witnessing the bus around the decision, my gas problem, that one more gas turbine of north stream one has to be taken to maintenance. and the e. u is conveying some extraordinary energy session on the matter in this regard i simply wanda, there are rules which provide secure operation to the pipeline. did i get it right that were being asked to violate the rules as particular german representatives

during? as far as i'm concerned, germans of famous have been committed to rules. how can they call for the violation of rules on which depends the security of people when it comes to the north stream to it is completely ready to make up for the demands of europe, which needs this particular fuel. however, it's close for purely political reasons, but it's, you know, you may have noticed there that's regular for off was speaking from uganda. he is on the 3rd leg off his african tour income. paula, the countries president met russia's foreign minister on while speaking to the media. both confirmed the refusal to polarize the this is what we are looking for. a win, win, win win for vivid, avoided in the was on disposable. so this is this idea over rivalry is sure to part of law in british and moment struck to, you know, other ways. was your new quartering with those who knows a little, surely from you. but you forgot about that and we're moving for when that was the

court rule. one day they asked me a question. are you perused or pro is a should you must, you mustn't come when you do it. why do you think of my, my men job is to be for somebody. i'm pro, i should have some presume he can't is present, gave the only right answer when asked whether he's a pro western or pro eastern politician. an answer which you could expect from a serious political figure. but unfortunately, right now, these instincts have colonialism emerge in the politics of western countries when they demand the whole well take their side and running against all the others. we also discussed the root causes of the unfolding energy and food crises, african friends understand that the origins of that have nothing to do with the military operation. when it comes to bilateral relations. we agree to keep that in mind and look for opportunities in the energy and food sectors, which wouldn't depend on the whim of western partners. precious foreign minister is an honored gas here under side stress is all the time the delegation has been

accepted at the presidential palace. this is where law of mad both his counterpart and the countries leader were gone days, a long term strategic and economic part. no rush, and that was one of just a few countries supported the gunners independence from bridge empire, gun days, highly dependent on russia's grain, their global food crisis, that followed western economic sanctions against russia was among the key topics on the agenda. while russia is very active here on the african continent, the west express has concerns about that and he's trying to put pressure on all right. you know, players working together with moss k. o gonna is the said country minister la visits as part of his african tour. next comes, is he rpm earlier minister law for all flaws in egypt on the republic of the congo as part of his 4 country trip. after uganda, he travels to his final destination as maria mentioned,

if the opium mister love roth also spoke with representatives from over 20 or a league nations earlier, though the u. s. department of state spokespersons dismissed the significance of about rather concluding that the church demonstrates how isolated russia is. it is becoming clear that russia is recognizing that his own actions have caused it to become a brian with if we have good relations with russia, all countries of africa have sovereignty and are free to choose their own policies . who are stance on the russia? ukraine crisis has remained unchanged since it's the breakout we never wanted to. how with the wolves as fuel to the fire when international policy consultant, uncle, like,

uncle dock believes uganda is seeking economic and political ties with russia as it wants a departure from colonial partners. what i think you got into these african kind of hoping to find a way where they can get some concessions from russia because no russia trying to pivot toward africa because there's some to see the african frontier that has been largely on tap by the western countries and the rhetoric towards africa from western countries based on sanctions, imma write violations, and paul governance. whereas russia and china are looking towards more political and economic relations with the continent. african leaders see that they don't have to be pulled into the way they can make their own decisions and look at their vote . how african nations voted at the general assembly many of st. never taking a formal side with ukraine or with russia. many of them are even saying they're not there to force them to take aside. african leaders are looking for solutions, they want investment, they want financing. and if you look at the example i give recently,

in the past 2 years, the chinese have invited all the african liter rushing to african leaders god willing, we're not going to see a recession. the words of president biden appears to be seeking help from a higher power to save him from some potentially crushing g d p. numbers coming up for the recession. my view, my, our b o from this rapid growth to steady growth, and we'll see some coming down. we're going to got really now while there's no official definition of recession, it is commonly considered as an economy shrinking for 2 consecutive quarters. the white house seems to disagree with that, instead, proposing to take a, quote, holistic look at the data biden stoffers out. in this case, the country is not recession, even if g d p ends up falling in the 2nd quarter of this year to while g d p in the

united states rank 1.6 percent in the 1st quarter of 2020 to us treasury secretary john at the ellen says, rising inflation in the country can be controlled. that's despite uninfluenced rate of 9 point, one percent, the highest number in decades, putting pressure, of course, on american consumers with food, energy, and rents continuing to get more expensive. you can't fake this. no, i was just, i was laughing to myself with the in my view thing that caitlin highlighted, it doesn't really matter what you think. if there is a, there is a technical definition to straight quarters of negative economic growth. well, we cross live now to geopolitical and markets analysts, tom longo, publisher all the popular gold goats and guns newsletter, joins us from florida. welcome to you. do you agree? first of all, with president biden's view that the recession in the u. s. is not inevitable. no,

i don't agree with them at all. as a matter of fact, i think joe is, is, is out the launch on this. it's very clear that we're looking at the we're looking at a recession and that's fine. actually the, the thing that's really worrisome is that everybody's afraid of it. ringback there's no reason to think that in a recession is necessarily a bad thing. it's usually the cure for mal invested capital and we've had, there are 13 years of now, investor capital through ruined a central bank policy and ruinous disco policy on the part of the government. the inflation rate is evidently 9 point one percent is not really the true cost that americans are experiencing. i don't, i'm not going to say yes or no to that. what i'm going to say is, i think that that number is terribly understated because they continually readjust the cpi a calculation. and, and if we go back to the way we adjusted or talked about the cpi or unemployment or

any of these figures back to when the last time we went through an inflationary depression, which was the 19 $170.00 s the, the numbers would be far higher and i don't think anybody believes 9 point one percent inflation when gasoline over the last 18 months is gone for a $1.85 over $4.00 a gallon or that contract already on. and certainly looking in the rear view mirror to q 2 when the gas was $5.00 a gallon here in the us. the idea that 9 point one percent inflation is anything other than a goal seek number out of an excel spreadsheet. for political purposes is just silly. i mean, but everybody does that. the us is not the only one that does that. so it's just, it is, it's where we are in the small size markets to, to just follow on from what you said before. tom, the by did ministration from the president to the treasury secretary, they've been keen to done play fears of recession. why is that a, is it just to stop people from panicking? now it's about the mid term elections. let's not kid ourselves. the democrats are

looking at an historic wipe out this fall in, in the mid term elections. there's no way of getting around that. at this point, all they're trying to do now is to try to define away the problem and hope that you know, they can massage the situation to the point where they can say, well, you know, experts say that it's not really a recession. if we have 2 quarters of g negative g, d, p growth, but that's just as yet another appeal to authority like they did with anthony fact sheet or, and cove it or anything like that. it's, it's, it's a way to shore up their, their, their suburban middle bypass base is really what it comes down to their, their white space. and that's, i think that's all they can hope for at this point. and it's a very weak talking point. they're actually doing that all that same time. they're trying to pivot and blame the fed for this. i wrote about the gesture down the blog and said, you know, the idea that the average american cares, one with about federal reserve policy. you know, they're going to look at this and say, well,

ok if the fed so bad in their causing the recession. well then why did you reappoint on panel? why did you mean this is this basic, you know, 1st order logical statements, you know, thinking here. so americans already argue ahead of the mid term. sorry, tom, just that sure. they've been hit with challenges that do that by demonstration that they could never have been prepared for or does it come down to just miscalculations in fiscal policy by then it's, it's a mixture of everything. i think i have a very, very sophisticated view of what's going on between the federal reserve and the in the vitamins. and i don't think there, i don't think they're playing for the same team at this point. if you're my honest opinion, i think there are forces within the american political and financial system that are pulling in different directions. and because of that the, by the ministration is trying to throw that under the bus. the fed is working overtime and they probably well this week with a 75 or 100 point basis point right high to throw the by the ministration under the

bus and get them out of office. i think that's how deeply embedded the, the problem is at this point and, you know, the, the idea that maybe it was last years or 2 years ago, the covert spending and all that would then create inflation today. that's real. but you know, that was always going to be the case, but now who's now we're fighting over who's you know, over what we should do. you know, we're either keynesian or knock. so just maybe turning attention internationally. tom's or us global supremacy is tied directly. you could argue to the strength of the dollar on the economy. of course, do you think that the recession in the u. s. could have an impact on washington's influence? it's activities abroad. would you go as far as that? it will but only in the long term, but it's going to do now is it's going to destabilize foreign markets, emerging markets. and especially at this point after the s e. b 's disastrous meeting on thursday. it's going to put up real crater pressure on european investors to decide whether or not they want to keep their money in europe or find

another home for. and i been saying this for a long time. i think that with the said being able to and having the room and the having the room to be able to raise interest rates aggressively. because inflation refuses to moderate what they can sell that story while they aggressively attack. i think they're attacking european power structures. that's what i think. i think it's very clear from the, the data at this point that there was a that's the, the, the ultimate, the ultimate goal here. and so i expect to see major capital flight out of europe as the political situation. there continues at great prices like italy and the u. k . and others just going back finally then to what we're speaking about. and maybe i'm being unkind to say that it appears that some numbers are being massage or the message of those numbers, but it does appear. joe biden is almost trying to redefine what a recession means. traditionally,

as we talk about is 2 quarters of negative growth. but his administration does appear to be ignoring the will the american people accept that new way of thinking about our recession? no, they won't care because they don't have enough money to put gas in their card and get to work like this is the, this is the product of what happens when the echo chamber in dc is insulated as it is from outside ideas. and that's just simply where we are here. these are talking points, these are a political the action strategies that could only be birth inside and out of contract. ok. so out of touch with what's going on us on the ground in reality for real people that well, let's blame the fed and you know, it's great, isn't it great that joe kept gas from getting to 6 dollars a gallon? that's really their argument. and that's, that's, that's all losing strategy. kinetic and that's what they are always a pleasure. allen. tom no longer a publisher geopolitical on market. i'm going to live in the program. thank you to

thank you. of energy and food crises continue in many parts of the globe. it's left many struggling to simply survive inter lanka, food inflation has exceeded 80 percent. a recent government decision to restrict fuel in port game of the country faces a severe shortage of foreign exchange reserves. supplies of sea food and local markets are running low to a crucial food staple. and the countries generally being hit by lack of essential ortiz, wynja and sharma has been taking a deeper look at the issue a tooth around 20 kilometers from sheila, gauze, largest city, colombo is elecom, the geologist, community official men is deeply affected by the crisis. the lack of fuel has meant that they haven't gone fishing for d is both headed out to see or is

a rare sight of the 75 whistles based here today, only 9 had fewer. i'm the luck to go fishing. what about 90 percent of the vote? sad grounded here because of lack of fuel. they'll fishermen, community or find need extremely hot to stay with the fishing sector employees. 110th of sheila gas population and helps to feed many more. i took out my boat off the 3 weeks today. it's been very tough for us on the island also explored what fish do not crabs and prompts to several countries, including china, japan, as well as the us. now majority of these orders cannot be fulfilled right now. we don't have fewer for the boats, boats conroe for long days and congress, i'm actually going to need you to get drawing. so the season is actually supposed to be the seasonal problems and coffee. now those days, if you dig with last year december,

the drawings went up to around $500.00. that's been now we go. 1001, get one kilogram. norma to an a fish. yeah. second ed by the local to do on also. dave and from the range of $43200.00. when all day i go up to 700. so you both use the crisis only getting was with these days, very expensive if you will leave a message all day. mm hm. how often do you come here now? once a week ago? oh yeah, i know you're not able to afford. yeah. anybody, if you go, the big question remains, will the new president run of the committee may be able to stop the island from thinking deeper into the crisis and will the people give him a chance to do still crunching sharma, sri lanka, r t k. i want to bring you back to african on a deadly incident on anti

u. n. protest in the democratic republic of the congress left at least 5 people dead and more than 50 injured now. they footage thought we have here shows, members of a un peacekeeping mission in the d. r. c. firing shots at the crowds of protesters . according to media reports, troops use tear gas and life bullets to disperse demonstrators and looters. you and officials have yet to comment. on the instant the peacekeeping mission in the country has been facing increased criticism for its perceived failure to stop fighting in the conflict torn east of the country. the new head of rushes space agency has announced in his 1st report to president putin that the country will suspend its participation in the international space. station ortiz, racial blevins, can tell us more about the move. we know that the international space station is already in its final decade, but now russia is confirming that it will end its work with the i s. s after 2024.

now that will also notably end a decades long partnership involving nasa and the european space agency. the announcement was made during a meeting between russian president putin and the newly appointed head of ross cosmos. now we're continuing to work within the framework of international cooperation on the international space station. of course, we will fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made. i think that by then we will begin to construct our own russian space station. now this announcement comes just days after the you ask and firm plans to resume flights to and from the i assess with russia has past statements have indicated that it plan to continue to work with moscow until at least 2030. now all of this comes, of course, as the u. s. has imposed historic sanctions against russia, raising questions about how that partnership was even possible. and when it comes

to those tensions between the 2 countries, they have made their way all the way to outer space. as earlier this month, the u. s. accused russia using the i assess for political purposes. after photos were published, that showed russian cosmonaut holding the flock of hooligans people's republic following a major victory for russia. now, when it comes to the future in space, the i s. s is set to officially expire in 2031. now russia has said for months now that it plans to move forward with its own projects, specifically working on its own space station. now that is a major thing, as we've seen this ongoing partnership that has involved both the us and russia. but now we're likely to see just how much weight moscow carried in that partnership as it moves on to work on its own station. and as it officially says, good bye to and to the i s s. now when it comes to those projects, there's also been reports that russia is planning to collaborate with china as well

. moving forward now as for where the us and europe and all of this nasa has yet to say how it plans to make up for that reliance on one of the most important partners in space. but i'm sure that there will likely to be a statement on that in the coming days. a psychiatric hospital in done yet because come under attack from ukrainian artillery shelling according to local authorities . the official saying oil refinery in the city was also targeted by forces using us applied highmore systems. intense exchange of artillery fire is taking place along the entire front line in don boss with no lead up since last week. and the russian defense ministry has released footage of attack helicopters, inaction it comes. russian forces continue to target ukrainian military positions with the m o. d saying around 40 or the mercenaries were killed in

a single strike by high precision missiles. in the past 24 hours behind the front lines in that done yet. republic, rushing, humanitarian services have been delivering more a to villages most need our teeth, mon cost trip, he's on the ground there and sent us this report on the mission. village is still under fire and it's very difficult for people to bring of food here. so all these people are relying on humanitarian aid. there are at least 1200 residents that live in this village alone. and the russian humanitarian emission has been delivering food here for quite a few months. and according to the people, if it wasn't for them, they would be starving. we just looked at what i saw. this isn't our 1st time here . we've been 4 or 5 times cyril's, and this is my 3rd visit. anybody in this time will never was a standard humanitarian package. each box contains around 15 kinds of products

apart from food. we've also brought valuable things like water filters thrown in the weight of our cargo today is to new half tons over all since the war started. we've brought some 600 tons social away and i thought i'd say now we've been in this village for about 10 minutes. mind you. there is no network here sold the telephones on work. but somehow the people found out that the humanitarian aid was brought. and as you can see, there are now coming from everywhere because he, people from coming from afar. and this shows how much this humanitarian aid is needed. local folk are not a reporter. we've had no pensions, no salaries for 6 months. some shops of oakland, low prices have gone up 3 times. rather last time i got my pension was in february and that's it. there's no money to pay for food yet. and this, this is a significant how the, that watching federal ship or much it's very needed help him. we are refugees. we

left a broken house and everything and it was about like we took only a few bags with we are grateful said the hell is he battled the village of storm lina cubby came home to hundreds of refugees from other areas that ukraine is currently shelling. very heavily. now, right now i'm going to speak to a one of those refugees. he doesn't to be shown on camera because his relatives are still on a territory controlled by ukraine. but he has some very important information to share because she wanted her one ukrainian sold her head from the shelling in our courtyard. i call him in and hit him in the basement. he repeatedly use his walkie talkie asking for further instructions. he was very afraid, but he was told to come down and sit tight with him after a while he was told it's time to leave until he civilians as a shield, reuben, so he didn't even turn to us, but it's unlikely he could take 2 strong men as a shield anyway, little skill reasonable vis village saw some of the.